In Sri Aurobindo's Room

Soft I climbed the sacred stairs

Silencing the thundering heart,

Casting out mind's useless cares.

Earth shall survive because thou art.

Let desire be blown away

Like dust in a desert storm

All time become this single day

In thee to shelter from all harm.

Look now upon my soul and bless

This humbled head before thee bowed,

The world now lost in thy caress

Before thy feet thou hast allowed

Thy servant to be whole again,

To work and live alone for thee.

Help me from temporal fruits abstain

To be thine alone eternally.